SharePoint Installation Tips and Tricks

2013

Step by Step Installation of Active Directory for SharePoint – SharePoint George
http://sharepointgeorge.com/2012/configuring-active-directory-ad-ds-in-windows-server-2012/

2010

SharePoint 2010 with SP2 on Windows Server 2012 only
http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2010SP2ISO

SQL
How to install SQL on Disks
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/12/19/disk-and-file-layout-for-sql-server.aspx
Great Session on SQL on SharePoint
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlgardner/archive/2012/11/14/pass-summit-2012-session-slides.aspx

Single Server
Simple Least Privilege Install (step by step)
http://sharepointgeorge.com/2010/installing-sharepoint-2010-privilege-service-accounts/

Enterprise Install
2 Tier to 3 Tier (Great Article) *
http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/2011/02/how-to-scale-out-a-sharepoint-2010-farm-from-two-tier-to-three-tier-by-adding-a-dedicated-application-server/
Step by Step 3 Tier Install (Good Follow-up)
http://www.khamis.net/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=47
http://www.khamis.net/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48
Farm - Two Part Series from Microsoft on Shared Services Architecture
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/01/20/sharepoint-2010-shared-service-architecture-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/05/06/sharepoint-2010-shared-service-architecture-part-2.aspx
NLB Installation Guide
http://www.jppinto.com/2010/07/sharepoint-2010-installation-overview-table-of-contents/

Install Tips
Get rid of the GUID - Get rid of the CA GUID
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=233
More GUID Removal
http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2010/10/26/getting-rid-of-guids-in-sharepoint-2010-database-names.aspx
Database Maintenance (Add Attach Move Rename)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825329
Highly Available SharePoint Central Administration
http://www.harbar.net/articles/spca.aspx

Installation Tools
The SPModule.zip file is an unsupported sample of a Windows PowerShell module written by members of the SharePoint Product Group. The module can be used to perform simple administrative tasks related to installing a SharePoint farm.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6194

Farm
Standalone or Farm?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/sharepoint2010setup/thread/6fee8444-1661-47fb-bb26-16a80d18dac8

Farm Configuration Scripts
Technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262839.aspx
Codeplex http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/
https://autospinstaller.com/ (new)

More
http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2011/01/automate-sharepoint-2010-farm-configuration-with-powershell/

PowerShell to provision the entire SharePoint 2010 Farm
http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2012/05/international-sharepoint-conference-2012-follow-up/

Good Blog on farm and sharepoint installation automation
http://www.habaneros.com/blog/author/jwarren/posts.aspx

Reset Farm PassPhrase
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/2e45b280-8428-4d16-9348-2d10d14879cd/

Search Browser Integration

So you create a search center and your search applications are configured.  Now what?  To get your users to use you new Search Center add your site to their search providers.
  Internet Explorer
If you are using IE you need to add a customer provider and the version of IE determines your steps.  For IE 9 …
I found a neat site to help http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/searchbuilder.asp

To manage your search providers use in IE > Tools > Manage your IE add-ons  or …

Google Chrome

Just right click in the address bar – select edit search engines – other search engines
Fill in the three blanks using 
Sharepoint
Sharepoint
http://intranet.contoso.com/search/pages/results.aspx?k=%s (name of your results page + ?=%s)
Reference
Chrome https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/How-to-Create-a-Custom-Search-Engine-for-SharePoint-2013-in-Google-Chrome.aspx
Old Versions of IE http://www.pcworld.com/article/157021/Add_Custom_Search_Engines_to_IE_and_Firefox.html

Document Sets

Document Sets allow you to bundle multiple documents together and aid the process during onboarding or any other process that requires a number of documents.

First you need to turn on Document Sets at the Site Collection Level

Next need to create the content types for each of the bundled documents

Finally create a document set content type
Note that the document set content type info below

Change the Document Set Settings and add your bundled document content types

Change your content type to reflect the single document set content type

If you change your content type you will be prompted to update.

Note within the Document set you can access the individual content types

Hope this helps and have fun with SharePoint

eDiscovery

SharePoint 2013

Intro (from SharePoint Team’s Blog)
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1047

SharePoint 2010

EDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2010
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1047

PowerShell Version Issues

PowerShell 3.0 Issues

Microsoft Kb
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2796733

Blog Articles about Issues here
http://www.softlanding.ca/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=33

PowerShell 1.0 Issues

How to get PowerShell to work on 2007 or WSS 3.0
http://get-spscripts.com/2011/03/using-powershell-scripts-with-wss-30.html

ColdFusion SharePoint Integration

from adobe … (2007)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/sharepoint_cf.html

video
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/coldfusion-with-microsoft-office-sharepoint-and-exchange/

Convert Coldfusion pages to ASP.NET (old)
http://forums.asp.net/t/962989.aspx

Ben Forta’s SharePoint in CF9 announcement (old)
http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/10/ColdFusion-SharePoint-Integration

CF9 SharePoint integration (old)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSE4D1ED62-0267-445f-8A3B-4642F3F26383.html

Excerpt from

Adobe Coldfusion 9: Getting Started

By Ben Forta, Raymond Camden

Other Approaches for Accessing ColdFusion Data and Content from SharePoint In addition to the methods described so far for accessing entire ColdFusion 9 applications in SharePoint Web Part Pages, you can access ColdFusion 9 data
and content from SharePoint in the following ways Links, Web Services, Email, RSS, WebParts

Links: SharePoint offers many different ways for including simple links to
ColdFusion 9 application URLs.

Web services: SharePoint can use Web services via custom-developed Web Parts as well as via the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and BDC-related Web Parts, Therefore, you can create a ColdFusion Web service and consume it via
the SharePoint BDC and custom-developed Web Parts.

Email: SharePoint lists can be configured as email-enabled this opens a world of possibilities such as posting SharePoint blog entries via email and posting documents attached to emails to SharePoint document libraries.
Therefore, you can use the ColdFusion 9 <cfmaiI> tag to send ColdFusion data to SharePoint lists via email.

RSS: SharePoint provides the RSS Viewer Web Part that allows you to display an RSS feed in a Web Part Page. Therefore, you can use the ColdFusion 9 <cf feed> tag to produce an RSS feed that you consume with the SharePoint RSS Viewer
Web Part,

WSRP: SharePoint provides the WSRP Consumer Web Part that allows you to display a WSRP Producer in a Web Part Page. Therefore, you can use the ColdFusion 9 capabilities as a WSRP Producer to expose ColdFusion data
as a Web service that can be displayed with the SharePoint WSRP Consumer Web Part.

References

(see Chapter 20, “Interacting with Email,” in Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application construction Kit, ¡ volume 1: Getting Started By Ben Forta, Raymond Camden)

(see Chapter 60, “Working with Feeds” in Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application construction Kit, ¡ volume 1: Getting Started By Ben Forta, Raymond Camden)

SharePoint SoftSkills

SharePoint SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
http://www.slideshare.net/cyberslate/case-study-for-a-sharepoint-sdlc

Great Looking SharePoint Sites

http://www.topsharepoint.com/
http://www.spsdemo.com/
http://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Microsoft-Office-SharePoint

Individual List - Student and Instructor Favorites
Initial 1/3/2013 Updated 4/2/2015

Microsoft Promoted
http://www.amd.com
http://www.hawaiianair.com
http://www.woodgroup.com/

Moved Away from SharePoint
http://www.bestbuy.com/
http://www.ferrari.com/english/pages/home.aspx
http://www.hydratech-industries.com/SitePages/Home.aspx
http://www.energizer.com/Pages/default.aspx

Student Sites
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/pages/home.aspx
http://wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.northernnaturalgas.com

More as per 10/5/2016 confirmed by builtwith
http://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Microsoft-Office-SharePoint

https://wellsfargo.com
https://homedepot.com
https://dell.com
https://qvc.com
https://office.com
https://ikea.com
https://united.com
https://starbucks.com
https://chilis.com
https://hbs.edu
https://basspro.com
https://iheart.com
https://oregon.gov
https://mandtbank.com
https://anthem.com
https://myflorida.com
https://computershare.com
https://centerpointenergy.com
https://illinois.gov
https://libertymutual.com
https://mtb.com
https://dollargeneral.com
https://providence.org
https://uscourts.gov
https://ralphlauren.com
https://republicservices.com
https://uwmedicine.org
https://aps.com
https://amd.com
https://steinmart.com
https://wisconsin.gov
https://texas.gov
https://volvocars.com
https://oclc.org
https://familydollar.com
https://pandasecurity.com
https://treasury.gov
https://phoenix.gov
https://successfactors.com
https://kennedy-center.org
https://pse.com
https://jeep.com
https://wmata.com
https://mbs.edu
https://goodwill.org
https://alabama.gov
https://siemens.com
https://autonation.com
http://alaska.gov

More
http://www.kempinski.com/en/Pages/Welcome.aspx
http://www.brightstarr.com/pages/default.aspx
http://www.ataturkairport.com/en-EN/Pages/Main.aspx
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.volvocars.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.fiatspa.com/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.embraer.com/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.eulerhermes.com/
http://www.hamiltonisland.com.au/
http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.pocruises.com.au/pages/default.aspx
http://www.vaisala.com/en/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.trincoll.edu/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.winchester.com/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.learnicu.org/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.calphalon.com/pages/home.aspx
http://www.lutron.com/Pages/Default.aspx
http://www.360-5.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.ornge.ca/Pages/Default.aspx
http://www.credera.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.qualia.com.au/
http://www.sharpie.com/Pages/GlobalLanding.aspx multi language !!!!
http://www.capsuleendoscopy.org/Pages/default.aspx  multi language !!!! 
http://www.wellstar.org/pages/default.aspx
http://www.maerskoil.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.indyzoo.com/SitePages/home.aspx
http://www.republicservices.com/Corporate/home.aspx
http://www.kijkenkiezen.nl/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.marketingpower.com/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.pousadas.pt/historic-hotels-portugal/en/pages/home.aspx

Japanese
http://gazoo.com/racing/english/

More on Multiple Languages and creating multilingual sites.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff463597.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/create-a-multi-language-website-HA102886546.aspx